Antheridium

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An organ producing male gametes called antherozoids, found in some algae, ferns, and bryophytes.

    "Ascodesmis is a third type which might be derived either directly or through the erysiphaceous type from an endomycetous ancestor; the antheridium and oogonium are but little differentiated, but the latter is furnished with a trichogyne and becomes septate after fertilization; the ascogenous hyphae are few and the sheath simple."

  2. 2
    the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowers wordnet

Etymology

From anther + -idium.

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